These Are The 25 Best Universities If You Want To Work In Finance, According To LinkedIn

The professional social network used an innovative method to come up with the ranking. It found people on the website who listed themselves as working in finance, broke that down by the university he or she attended, and ranked each university in terms of how "desirable" the jobs that their alumni had.

The LinkedIn researchers explain their methodology:

Below are the top 25 schools for the whole financial profession. The top 25 for investment bankers - which is very similar to the list below - can be found here.

1. University of Pennsylvania
2. Yale University
3. Georgetown University
4. Princeton University
5. Columbia University
6. New York University
7. Duke University
8. Harvard University
9. Cornell University
10. Dartmouth College
11. University of Notre Dame
12. Wake Forest University
13. Villanova University
14. Boston College
15. Wellesley College
16. Amherst College
17. Brown University
18. Lehigh University
19. Rice University
20. Carnegie Mellon University
21. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
22. Rutgers University
23. Emory University
24. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
25. University of Michigan